As President of the Crescent City Coin
Club for the past 3 years, I have good reason to express my heartfelt thanks
to the officers, members, and friends of the club. We have accomplished
much together in these years that passed too quickly.

Together, we hosted 3 outstanding shows
per year with unprecedented member support for set-up and take-down. Our
dealer participants cite our shows as among the best for organization,
member support, and the ratio of dealers to show attendees.

We relocated from the Quality Hotel to
the VFW Post 6640 Hall, a move orchestrated by our Show Chairman, Bob Eddy.
This move has proven to be cost effective, convenient, and the support from
Ruth Young and her staff is generous.

We established a Website complete with
our own domain name (crescentcitycoinclub.org) and gained the support of the
American Numismatic Association for webspace. In fact, we were featured in
an ANA bulletin citing our website as a premier example for other clubs.

We supported the Louisiana statehood
quarter launch ceremony in May 2002. Several of us had the honor of meeting
with Henrietta Holsman Fore, the Director of the United States Mint, and
sharing our views with her, thanks to Jimmy Cohen.

We had meetings that encouraged the free
exchange of information about numismatics, included enjoyable programs,
drawings and prizes, and most importantly accomplished the business of the
club. Thanks to Vice President Dale Toncrey for scheduling the meeting
programs and drawings.

Critical to our success was the business
of the club. We reaped the harvest of men and women who were willing
to serve and were elected to the Board of Governors who met regularly to
make the management decisions that allow our club to run so effectively.
Thanks to all of the board members who served so faithfully.

Finally, we lost some friends along the
way. Early in 2000, Joe Ferrantelli… “Santa” died in a tragic house fire.
Just a year later in March 2001, we lost Karl Close to cancer. And just
this past September 2003, we lost Clarence Rareshide. In December 2003, we
mourned the passing of JoAnn Wilsey (Marhay), Life Member #1, to cancer.
While these are not the only friends we have lost, they all earned a place
in our hearts.

Thank you, officers, members, and
friends of the club. Thank you for the opportunity to serve a club that
deserves to grow and prosper, and will grow and prosper with your
continued participation.